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by code4tee 9y ago
Anyone that's ever taken a serious look at online advertising knows that the elephant in the room is that most of it doesn't work. P&G is just the latest large firm to call that out.
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by code4tee 9y ago
This is being painted as somewhat of a negative thing but in many places this is part of good urban planning. It's private property (generally with large buildings) where as part of the agreement to build a giant building one also need
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by code4tee 9y ago
Very nice work. Thanks for sharing.
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by code4tee 9y ago
The last time I talked to some "experts" at McKinsey about data science they said the leaders in the space were heavily investing in IBM's Watson and suggested we do the same (this was right before everything started hitting
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by code4tee 9y ago
Within the data science community Watson has long been viewed as snake oil. Glad to see less technical and business folks are finally smelling BS too.
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Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check(techcrunch.com)
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by code4tee 9y ago
The Indian IT situation has reached somewhat of a breaking point, hence the current situation unfolding. The real low level stuff is now being increasingly automated thus eliminating the need for cheap labor to do such tasks. At the same ti
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by code4tee 9y ago
This is a big shot across the bow to startups looking to go public. Message: You're not ready to float if you're not floating, i.e. have a viable business model and can fund operations with revenues. Also, having a down round afte
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by code4tee 9y ago
Yes, but they just started the process of acquiring Whole Foods which does the prepared food thing quite well. I'm sure Amazon would tap into that. It's no longer just a "dry goods in warehouse" business.
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by code4tee 9y ago
They are a middleman that could be easily bypassed by bigger players, and investors are calling them out on that. Also, customer retention and cost of customer acquisition remains a big issue. No reason why Amazon couldn't just tack on
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by code4tee 9y ago
For movies yes, but for TV at that time a lot was with video cameras.
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by code4tee 9y ago
I always find the idea of future proofing interesting here. Like the way Seinfeld reruns are in HD even though the technology didn't really exist at the time--because they shot a TV show in actual film and then could re-scan it later t
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by code4tee 9y ago
Imagine the pressure the VCs on the board are under from the people that gave them money to invest. An investment in Uber went from: "Man I can't believe you got our money in there, we're gonna be rich!" to "$&?
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by code4tee 9y ago
Cash is nearly always better for the employee. Startups like options because: 1. They can "pay" people with "free" pieces of paper that effectively cost nothing from a cash standpoint 2. It helps keep staff onboard by sl
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by code4tee 9y ago
Sounds like this is more in line with what they did with ApplePay vs traditional credit cards--I.e. They give you randomized IDs each time so the other party can't track you from transaction to transaction. Adds can still appear but th
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by code4tee 9y ago
They do not have a sustainable business. They're clearly pumping up revenue with subsidies (which is why they lose so much money). I do use Uber occasionally but when I do there's so many offers and deals that I never pay anything
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by code4tee 9y ago
Nice article and it still holds despite being a few years old. There's a general lack of understanding or appreciation for this "medium" data world which is actually where most of "big" data lives (i.e. too big for
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by code4tee 9y ago
They lost $2.2billion on revenue of $150 million. Ouch (and yes those RSUs very much count). Even on an EBITDA basis they lost more than they had in revenue. They've got to turn the ship around. With user growth rather anemic they&#x27
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by code4tee 9y ago
I get that the whole thing smells like overpolished PR, but personally I think it's a neat idea and more power to him for just getting out there and meeting so many people.
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by code4tee 9y ago
The "hedge" has left hedge funds. If you're losing 15%+ a year for multiple years you've $&@ed up big time in managing someone's money. When this is happening when the market are doing the exact opposite then it
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by code4tee 9y ago
Amazon is the Wal-Mart of the Internet (Wal-Mart wants to be the Wal-Mart of the Internet but it hasn't been going so well). It's not the place to be selling custom made stuff with a 6 week lead time, nor would Wal-Mart. Nice prod
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by code4tee 9y ago
So I'm guessing "stripping adds that provide a bad experience for users" is just code for "stripping adds not generating revenue for Google." A lot of other neutral add blockers block Google and hence Google needs t
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by code4tee 9y ago
Glad to see people finally waking up to the fact that most active money managers are actually terrible at managing your money.
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by code4tee 9y ago
750 employees? I don't get it. Slack is great, but it's also incredibly easy to copy. To the big tech guys this is just a feature, not a product, and that's Slack's challenge. It's totally fine if they don't ta
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by code4tee 9y ago
The AmEx lounges are much nicer than the airline lounges... only bad thing is that there aren't more of them
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by code4tee 9y ago
Quite simply at the rate Uber is going it will crash and burn long before self-driving cars are a thing at scale
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by code4tee 9y ago
Uber is demonstrating that they can sell $2 bills for a buck and that there's demand for that. They've not demonstrated they can establish a real business here in what has turned into a pure commodity market. In competitive market
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by code4tee 9y ago
REI is a great company
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by code4tee 9y ago
The race to the bottom continues... in the meantime I'm enjoying all these nice VCs that are subsidizing my transport costs
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by code4tee 9y ago
Wow. Lots of parties liable here. Reeks of those cases where banks forceclosed on the wrong houses. Sad that one has to go public like this to get anything to happen, but I suspect that it will help showing the world how incompetent the inv

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